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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN P. REGAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ANTI-INSECT FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 339,810, dated April 13, 1886.

(No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN P. REGAN, of the city, county,and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Anti-Insect Fabric, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in an improved paper or fabric for the protection of wearing-apparel and other articles from the ravages of moths and other insects and in the preparation of the same, substantially as hereinafter described.

In the preparation of my improved anti moth or'insect fabric I take any flexible and absorbent fabric, preferably unsized or only partly'sized paper, and first subject it to a bath which is made up of a solution produced by treating tobacco and cascarilIa-bark with benzine. Thus I take, for instance, tobaccoleaf in the proportion of about halfof a pound, (-1 lb.,) and cascarilla-bark about one-fourth of a pound, (ilb.,) and coarsely grind bot1.1.and place them in a vessel containing about two pounds (2 lbs.) of benzine, and, after securely corking or sealing the vessel, allow them to macerate for about one week. The paper or fabric to be treated is then soaked or permit ted to steep for about six hours,(more or less,) in said solution,and afterward hung up to dry. I then take the fabric thus prepared or partially prepared and subject it to a second bath, which is made up of a solution produced by taking t0bacco-leafsay in the proportion of half a pound, (5 lb.,) and eascarillabark one fourth of a pound, (i lb.,) and treating them with boiling water in the proportion of about two pounds, (2 lbs.) The fabric is allowed to steep in said solution for about six hours,after which it is taken out of the bath and allowed to dry naturally or otherwise.

In the use of eascarilla-bark in connection with the tobacco-leaf for the purpose described said bark, while in itselfa preservation,has the effect of removing or counteracting the objectionable or offensive odor of the tobacco as applied to clothes, &c., and a very efficient and inoffensive anti moth or insect paper or fabric is produced.

The invention is not restricted to the precise proportions of the ingredients herein namedin the preparation ofthe solutions used, nor yet to the time named for maceration or time for exposure of the fabric in the solutions.

The improved anti-moth or anti-insect paper or fabric thus produced may be applied or used as a lining for trunks, boxes, and various packages, or as a wrapper about clothes or other articles that it is desirable to protect from the ravages of moths or other insects.

I am aware that an anti-insect paper has be fore been produced from disintegrated bamboo or cane and other material worked into pulp mixed or charged with tobacco or a decoetion of tobacco. Such, however, I do not claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

1. The within-described paper or fabric for the protection of clothes and other articles from the ravages of moths and other insects, prepared by treatment with tobacco and cascarilla-bark,substantially as herein described.

2. In the preparation of the within -described anti-moth or anti-insectpaper or fabric, first steeping the fabric to be prepared in a solution of tobacco and cascarilla bark macerated in benzine, afterward drying said fabric, then steeping it in asolution of tobacco, cascarilla-bark, and hot water, and subsequently drying the fabric,essentially as specitied.

JOHN P. REGAN.

\Vitnesses:

J OHN MoRRIs, JAMES MORIARTY. 

